imitate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 模仿, 仿效; 仿制, 仿造，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan, however, was not going to imitate Hannibal at Capua, and at ten o'clock next morning gave the signal for starting.
-- "But, Monsieur Paganel," interposed Lady Helena, "if this be Capua, you dare not intend to imitate Hannibal!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to have taken it into his head to imitate the prince in Christian meekness!Surikoff, who lived above us, annoyed me, too.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not for fun that he had learned while he was with the wolves to imitate the challenge of bucks in the jungle and the grunt of the little wild pig.
-- So, as soon as Messua pronounced a word Mowgli would imitate it almost per-fectly, and before dark he had learned the names of many things in the hut.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The col-ors are intended to imitate the hues of the wood, with a view to concealment.
-- In such circumstances, common prudence dictated that Heyward and his companions should imitate a caution that proceeded from so intelli-gent a source.
-- Before Major Heyward would imitate this proof of con-fidence, he glanced his eyes around the plain, and beheld with uneasiness the numerous dusky groups of savages, who looked out from the margin of the surrounding woods, curious spectators of the interview.
-- The beast still contin- ued its rolling, and apparently untiring movements, though its ludicrous attempt to imitate the melody of David ceased the instant the latter abandoned the field.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When his services were not required, either for carrying wood or for climbing to the top of some tree, Jup passed the greatest part of his time in the kitchen, where he endeavored to imitate Neb in all that he saw him do.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the dwarf, turing round and addressing his wife, 'why don't you always imitate your mother, my dear?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instinctively, she felt a desire to imitate it.
-- She used her feet less heavily, a thing that was brought about by her attempting to imitate the treasurer's daughter's graceful carriage.
-- Of late, seeing the airy grace of the ingenue in several well-constructed plays, she had been moved to secretly imitate it, and many were the little movements and expressions of the body in which she indulged from time to time in the privacy of her chamber.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't imitate him, and so I ain't a-going to try to; but he really done it pretty good.
-- But it warn't no use; he stormed right along, and said any man that pretended to be an Englishman and couldn't imitate the lingo no better than what he did was a fraud and a liar.
-- I can't give the old gent's words, nor I can't imitate him; but he turned around to the crowd, and says, about like this: 'This is a surprise to me which I wasn't looking for; and I'll acknowledge, candid and frank, I ain't very well fixed to meet it and answer it; for my brother and me has had mis- fortunes; he's broke his arm, and our baggage got put off at a town above here last night in the night by a mistake.
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